Unions went to the justice to complain about safety measure in the warehouses they work in. The justice looked at the claim and said : If you're not offering enough protection to your workers, you will be asked to only deviler essential goods.
The motivation from the french justice is to limit Amazon's greed for money, and hope they do more about their temporary workers that aren't as protected as the other. Basically, if Amazon activity slow down, they don't need to put that many people in the same warehouse anymore, which increase the safety of each one of them.
One thing to know, is that before this decision, not only Amazon didn't reduce the number of workers in their warehouse for obvious safety reasons, they literally increased it. Because there was money to make, they put more people than usual in a closed space, doing the exact opposite of what a company with some ethics would do. That's what enraged the unions to begin with.
Meanwhile Amazon is trying literally everything they can to not comply with the justice decision. They threatened to shut down entirely in hope that someone at the governement fear for the economy and overrule the justice decision. It didn't work. Then they tried to proves their workers were safe to work, but unions busted their claim (They said it was fine because their warehouse had a lot of opened windows, i'm not even kidding). Then they said they will close their warehouses in France but deliver from other europeans countries, in another hope to force a move from the governement. Then they said : We don't give a shit about your fine, we prefer to stay open even if you fine the shit out of us. To that the french justice replied : "Ok if you want to play it like that, it's no longer a fine for each day you're not respecting the justice decision, but a fine for each thing you actually deliver that you shouldn't have.
Basically their defense that they don't know what is essential or not, is a legitimate defense. But we arrived to that point, because Amazon are greedy as fuck and don't give a single fuck about their employees. They will do literally everything possible to stay open, and that's what forced the french justice to come up with stupid decisions like they did. Amazon is not the only company delivering stuff in France, but they are the only one being hit like that, because that's literally the the only thing they understand. You can't expect Amazon to take a good decision by themselves, they will always pick the greedier one. So these kinf of justice decisions are really the only way to obtain somethign from them, and even then it still doesn't work.
To this day, their warehouse in Toulouse that they claimed had closed the 20th of april is till open. They literally don't give a single fuck about anything. They claim everywhere that they close, but in reality as long as there is a single penny to make, they will stay open.
In the meantime, Amazon haters are free to rejoice. But the fact is that Amazon Web Services deliver most of Amazon's operating income anyway. And AWS isn't impacted by this court case.
They are basically two entirely different companies. If you're an iT engineer, Amazon is actually one of the greatest company you can work for. If you're a warehouse worker, then Amazon is literally the worst company you can work for. They don't give a single shit about these workers because they are disposable unlike their IT engineers.
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